The Mystery of Phantom States

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. For a subtle investigation of Weber that goes beyond the state-as-violent-entrepreneur model, see Rogers Brubaker, The Limits of Rationality (Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1984). See also Mancur Olson, Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1990 (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990); Charles Tilly, ed., The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); and Michael Mann, The Rise and Decline of the Nation State (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990). 2. Liam Anderson, “Reintegrating Unrecognized States: Internationalizing Frozen Conflicts,” in Unrecognized States in the International System, eds. Nina Caspersen and Gareth Stansfield (London: Routledge 2010), p. 188. 3. James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War,” American Political Science Review 97, no. 1 (February 2003): pp. 75–90 http://wand.stanford.edu/courses/polisci350c/classonly/fearon_laitin2003.pdf. 4. See Barbara F. Walter, “Building Reputation: Why Governments Fight Some Separatists but Not Others,” American Journal of Political Science 50, no. 2 (April 2006): pp. 313–330, http://bama.ua.edu/~sborrell/psc521/separatists.pdf; and Walter, “Information, Uncertainty, and the Decision to Secede,” International Organization 60, no. 1 (2006): pp. 105–135. 5. Saskia Baas, “Child soldiers & Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA),” April 27, 2010, ugandawatch.blogspot.com/2010/05/special-report-child-soldiers-sudan.html. 6. Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler, and Nicholas Sambanis, “The Collier-Hoeffler Model of Civil War Onset and the Case Study Project Research Design,” in Understanding Civil War: Africa, eds. Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005). See also Fearon and Laitin, “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War.” 7. Lawrence Wright, “Captives: What really happened during the Israeli attacks?” The New Yorker, November 9, 2009., http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/09/091109fa_fact_wright. 8. Vladimir Solonari, “Creating a ‘People’: A Case Study in Post-Soviet History-Writing,” Kritika 4, no. 2 (Spring 2003): pp. 411–448. 9. “Statement of the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Related to the Resolution of the UN International Court on the Independence of Kosovo,” http://www.nkr.am/en/statements/116/. Additional informationNotes on contributorsDaniel BymanDaniel Byman is professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, research director of the Saban Center at Brookings, and author of A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. He is also a member of the TWQ editorial boardCharles KingCharles King is professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams